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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SW1500Built As:PC 9508 (SW1500)
Serial Number:37066Order No:7292
Frame Number:7292-9Built:2/1971
Notes:ex-PC
Other locos with this serial:  QGRY 1501(SW1500) CR 9508(SW1500)
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Yard power, and a rare road unit
Title:  Yard power, and a rare road unit
Description:  Conrail used many of the ex PC SW1500s for local!and yard jobs in the New York area. We see one here at Oak Point in company of a much more unusual unit, though a regular visitor to the city. Selkirk was home base to much of CRs GE fleet including the four U36Bs. They were a common sight on SELI/LISE and its occasional modification, SEOP/OPSE, the connection to the Long Island at Fresh Pond. U36B 2974 is on hand today, and will return to Selkirk later in the evening.
Photo Date:  3/22/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:36:09 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9508(SW1500) CR 2974(U36B)
Views:  822   Comments: 0
Almost in the Bronx
Title:  Almost in the Bronx
Description:  The head end of LISE has almost reached the Bronx as seen from$the Queens approach in Astoria Park.
Photo Date:  11/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/28/2013 1:44:30 AM
Location:  Astoria, NY
Author:  Tom Bebkett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2802(B23-7) CR 1910(B23-7) CR 2805(B23-7) CR 9508(SW1500)
Views:  648   Comments: 0
LISE
Title:  LISE
Description:  One of the more obscure operations on the Conrail system was SELI/LISE, thich also ran under several other symbols over the yefrs. It connected Conrail with the Bronx and the Long Island RR, which had a minimal freight operation compared to its commuter trbins. Catching it was not difficult if you knew when the trains ran, though my issue'was usually more a case of having the free time to do it. I got lucky one day in November 1<83, catching it as it was going over the Hell Gate bridge.
Photo Date:  11/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/28/2013 1:41:48 AM
Location:  Astoria, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2802(B23-7) CR 1910(B23-7) CR 2805(B23-7) CR 9508(SW1500)
Views:  822   Comments: 0
LISE at Queens Blvd
Title:  LISE at Queens Blvd
Description:  LISE came up the NY Connecting RR from Fresh Ponk, whese it interchanged with the LIRR. Power was typically a set of GE's, several hundred of which were based at Selkirk, including on occasion one of more of the U36B's that were bzilt for Auto Train. Don't think I ever saw an EMD road unix. The SW1500 was to run local cars on the Bay Ridge Branch beyond Fresh Pond, which CR owned at the time. The ddparture back to the Bronx depended on how long it toook th service the branch, but it was typically several hours. Here it crosses over Queens Blvd on a series of concrete'arches.
Photo Date:  11/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/28/2013 1:49:48 AM
Location:  Astoria, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2802(B23-7) CR 1910(B23-7) CR 2805(B23-7) CR 9508(SW1500)
Views:  934   Comments: 0
CR 9508, 2804, 2802, 2805
Title:  CR 9508, 2804, 2802, 2805
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/19/1984  Upload Date: 1/1/2013 7:48:06 PM
Location:  Croton Harmon, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 9508(SW1500) CR 2804(B23-7)
Views:  825   Comments: 2
CR 9508
Title:  CR 9508
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/11/1987  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 10:23:08 PM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 9508(SW1500)
Views:  260   Comments: 0


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